InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consist of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year. By Shaaron A Alvares, David Almeda.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When it comes to QA, I am often asked, "What should my testing strategy be?" The answer, unfortunately, isn't clear-cut because it depends on your product's level of maturity.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

First we were told that every company will become a technology company. Then the tides shifted to every company will become a DevOps company. Now the zeitgeist has a new obsession: Every company will become a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) company. Have you been keeping pace? If your company survived the ruthless restructuring of digital […].

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Episode 33. ??Are you a resilient manager? Do you want to become one? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Lara Hogan discuss what it means to be a resilient manager. She will discuss some effective management skills and thought processes. She will also introduce us to the idea of the manager Voltron. Show Notes. New manager care packages @1:00?.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria, and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. People get confused between these two things but they’re distinctly different, and it’s important to know how to tell them apart so they can be used effectively.

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DXC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today’s global technology industry evolves and moves forward almost daily. But one thing hasn’t changed: women continue to be underrepresented in the IT workforce. What really causes this ongoing gender imbalance, and what can be done to reduce it? The IT gender gap persists—and it may be growing. According to McKinsey, the percentage of female […].

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem By Stephen Bungay, Antoine Merour.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 11, 2019

AIOps is becoming the go-to technology for unifying monitoring capabilities because it presents a single source of the truth, according to industry observers. In fact, some 68% of the almost 100 IT leaders that participated in the inaugural meeting of the AIOps Exchange forum said they have active AIOps projects underway.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The exceptional and ground-breaking, technology-driven opportunities in today’s digitized age come with significant competitive pressures to transform promptly. Specific demands increase due to continuous repeating in response to customer preferences becomes the more deep-seated expectation. To overcome this issue, organizations are shifting toward DevOps as a medium to deliver innovations quickly.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Roughly a year ago, we wrote “ What machine learning means for software development.” In that article, we talked about Andrej Karpathy’s concept of Software 2.0. Karpathy argues that we’re at the beginning of a profound change in the way software is developed. Up until now, we’ve built systems by carefully and painstakingly telling systems exactly what to do, instruction by instruction.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Have a meeting for more bandwidth and speed Recently we were delivering a leadership development program when Annia, a senior leader in the firm, raised her hand and addressed the room: “I’ve noticed that many of us quickly send an email rather […]. The post Stop Emailing When You Should Have a Meeting appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Everyone responds to change differently. It depends on their history, the change in question, and even their mood that day. And yet, there is a pattern to how people respond. To help illuminate the responses to change, let’s take a simple look at change itself.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to business and IT, from intelligent IT operations (AIOps) to service management to software testing, is keeping the data revolution moving at lightning speed.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

DECEMBER 12, 2019

For all the excitement about machine learning (ML), there are serious impediments to its widespread adoption. Not least is the broadening realization that ML models can fail. And that’s why model debugging, the art and science of understanding and fixing problems in ML models, is so critical to the future of ML. Without being able to troubleshoot models when they underperform or misbehave, organizations simply won’t be able to adopt and deploy ML at scale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Most of us get there from time to time. You’re stuck in a season where everything feels urgent. It’s one thing to push yourself, but what do you do when you know your team is exhausted too? That Moment When Your Team […]. The post How to Lead When Your Team is Exhausted appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Top 12 DevOps tools. DevOps is a software development and delivery process that helps in emphasizing communication along with cross-functional collaboration between product management, software development, and operations professionals.

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Flexagon

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Gartner has predicted[1] that by 2020 that over 50% of global enterprises will have implemented application release automation, up from less than 15% in 2017. The increasing adoption of application release automation, or ARA, is due to the benefits of automating application release, including improvements in efficiency, scalability, and operational control.

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. People get confused between these two things but they’re distinctly different, and it’s important to know how to tell them apart so they can be used effectively.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2019

You can only lead others as well as you lead yourself – and this includes navigating a range of emotions that sadly ruin many leaders’ influence. In this episode, David shares several ways you can work with your emotions to help […]. The post How Leaders Manage Their Emotions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You can only lead others as well as you lead yourself – and this includes navigating a range of emotions that sadly ruin many leaders’ influence.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Under increasing pressure to innovate faster, a majority (84%) of organizations taking part in a recent survey have already embraced microservices. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree […].

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 12, 2019

When making the big shift to the cloud, companies often become hyper-focused on the cost savings, greater scalability, and increased agility they hope to see as a result of their cloud adoption.

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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Synopsys

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With 36 years of experience, Behshad Rejai, VP of engineering in the Software Integrity Group, shares her views of the future of software development. The post Behshad Rejai on the past, present, and future of software development appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Agile42

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations to our colleague and friend Regina Martins who has been approved as a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) by the Scrum Alliance at the recent Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna. Regina joins the rich list of agile42 CSTs in South Africa and worldwide. She is not only a great coach and trainer, but also very active in the local Agile community including SUGSA events, and the creative force behind the new "Artful Facilitator" concept now offered as the Masterful Facilitator program for

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 7, 2019

This blog provides a unique take on using machine learning to predict free agent signings in the off-season. MLB’s Hot Stove season has begun and several big contracts have already been handed out to Zack Wheeler, Yasmani Grandal, Will Smith, and more. However, over 90% of this year’s free agent class remains unsigned, including the big three of Gerritt Cole, Stephen Strasburg, and Anthony Rendon.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Increasingly, companies are moving their data and processing to cloud services. It’s easy for this out-of-sight data to be out of mind when it comes to security, but if anything, it should be top of mind because it's even more exposed than is on-premises data. With regulators issuing record fines for privacy violations, developers need to make sure they secure their data in the cloud.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the […]. The post Can We Do Without DevOps? appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2019

All the world’s tech giants from Alibaba to Amazon are in a race to become the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence (AI). These companies are AI trailblazers and embrace AI to provide next-level products and services. Chinese company Alibaba is the world’s largest e-commerce platform that sells more than Amazon and eBay combined. Artificial intelligence […].

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Perficient

DECEMBER 12, 2019

While there are plenty of cases in life where vendor loyalty is rewarding, cloud services do not fall under this category.Full dependence on any one vendor is a dangerous thing as you're trusting that it will be around forever or is impervious to a s.

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